Ricky Gervais doesn’t want to be defined by his jokes. In a new interview with The New York Times, the comedian and five-time Golden Globes host talks about why he doesn’t have a problem making harsh jokes about celebrities in the audience.
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I’ll flip a joke halfway through and change my stance to make the joke better. I’ll pretend to be right wing, left wing, whatever wing, no
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